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Albert J. Klaus
Albert J. Klaus

New York Times, Tuesday, January 5, 1993

60-Down : Dreadful

Author:
Albert J. Klaus
Editor:
Eugene T. Maleska
Rows: 15, Columns: 15, Words: 78, Blocks: 40, Avg Word Len: 4.74, Missing: { J Q W X Y Z }, Scrabble score: 257 (avg 1.39)
Open Squares: 71, Cheaters: 2, FITB: 3, XRef: 0, Spans: 1
Albert J. Klaus has 115 known pre-Shortz puzzles, and 4 Modern Era crosswords in our database.
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© 1993, The New York TimesNo. 15,764
Across
1
Within: Prefix : INTRA
6
Five-time Presidential candidate : DEBS
10
Cry of sorrow : ALAS
14
More unusual : RARER
15
Part of Q.E.D. : ERAT
16
Quaker leader : PENN
17
Steeple : SPIRE
18
Quote : CITE
19
This, in Ávila : ESTE
20
A k a Mary Westmacott : AGATHACHRISTIE
23
Society-page word : NEE
24
Dinner time, to Donne : EEN
25
Part of a min. : SEC
28
Job opening : SLOT
31
Obligations : ONUSES
36
To be, in Paris : ETRE
38
Cambodian neighbor : LAOS
40
Solar-year excess : EPACT
41
A k a Currer Bell : CHARLOTTEBRONTE
44
Past or present, e.g. : TENSE
45
Submarine sandwich : HERO
46
Type of tide : NEAP
47
Part of an overcoat : SLEEVE
49
Bombay attire : SARI
51
Kin of aves. : RDS
52
S Nigerian native : EDO
54
Halfway house : INN
56
A k a Boz : CHARLESDICKENS
64
Exec's car : LIMO
65
Disable : MAIM
66
Demonstration of validity : PROOF
68
Lyric poems : ODES
69
Taj Mahal's site : AGRA
70
Relating to sheep : OVINE
71
Hereditary factor : GENE
72
Appear : SEEM
73
Concise : TERSE
Down
1
Collector on Apr. 15 : IRS
2
Calif. wine district : NAPA
3
Math course : TRIG
4
Played a tape again : RERAN
5
Mountain ridges : ARETES
6
Ten: Comb. form : DECA
7
___ the Red : ERIC
8
Use a tub : BATHE
9
Type of record player : STEREO
10
Mimics : APES
11
" ... ___ we forget!": Kipling : LEST
12
Oppositionist : ANTI
13
Dirk of yore : SNEE
21
Phone-call response : HELLO
22
Near the center : INNER
25
Factions : SECTS
26
Waters or Merman : ETHEL
27
Wading bird : CRANE
29
Solemn vow : OATH
30
Lugs : TOTES
32
Atop : UPON
33
More rational : SANER
34
Outward : ECTAD
35
Rome's Spanish ___ : STEPS
37
Gaelic : ERSE
39
Antitoxins : SERA
42
Even : LEVEL
43
Acid type : BORIC
48
Swellings of a sort : EDEMAS
50
Where to dip a quill : INKPOT
53
Kind of orange : OSAGE
55
Temerity : NERVE
56
Wooden-soled shoe : CLOG
57
Conceal : HIDE
58
Approval : AMEN
59
Light pink wine : ROSE
60
Dreadful : DIRE
61
Mosque priest : IMAM
62
Roulette bet : NOIR
63
Pearl Buck book : SONS
67
Charge for service : FEE

Answer summary:
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